Rodrigo s.s ☦︎

O objeto de nossa busca é o fogo da graça que entra no coração. - São Teófano, o Recluso

[Миодраг 🇷🇸 @Miodrag_srb]

"Екуменизам је СВЕЈЕРЕС!"

Преподобни Јустин Нови, Ћелијски

[Philosway @philosway]

“Humans are the cruelest creatures of all, because they can smile while destroying.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[𝕽𝖊𝖉𝖜𝖔𝖔𝖉 ☦︎ @gh0stbrain]

"In pain and suffering Christ speaks to us, and thus God is kind to give them to us, yes, and evil too - for in all of these we glimpse something of what must lie beyond...”
-Fr. Seraphim Rose

[Δημήτρης Ρόδης @jimmyrodis]

Ο Χριστός δεν σώζει κανέναν δια της βίας! Περιμένει να μισήσει ο άνθρωπος τον εαυτό του και με Μετάνοια να στραφεί προς τον Θεό και να Τον ικετέψει για την Σωτηρία του, να επιθυμεί το Άγιο Πνεύμα να κατοικήσει στην ψυχή του.

~ Άγιος Λουκάς Κριμαίας (✞ 11 Ιουνίου)

[TheOrthodoxWay @_theorthodoxway]

“Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders.”
- St. Paisios of Mount Athos

[Δημήτρης Ρόδης @jimmyrodis]

«Τὸν Ἀντίχριστο τὸν ἐκπροσωποῦν δύο· ὁ
πάπας καὶ ὁ Μωάμεθ..»

~ Άγιος Κοσμάς ο Αιτωλός

[Philosway @philosway]

“The deeper a person thinks, the quieter they become.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Δημήτρης Ρόδης @jimmyrodis]

«Ο Διάβολος πολεμά την Εκκλησία απ’ έξω, οι δε κακοί Επίσκοποι από μέσα...»

~ Άγιος Γρηγόριος ο Θεολόγος

#orhodoxchurch #αλήθεια #ορθοδοξία

[Δημήτρης Ρόδης @jimmyrodis]

Ο μικρόσωμος, αγράμματος και φτωχός «Πετράκης» ήταν ησυχαστής σε μεγάλα μέτρα. Είχε την αδιάλειπτη προσευχή, έβλεπε συχνά το Άκτιστο Φως και ζούσε από αυτή τη ζωή παραδεισένιες καταστάσεις... Ο άγιος Παΐσιος έλεγε ότι απ' όσους ασκητές γνώρισε ο γερω-Πέτρος ήταν σε ανώτερα μέτρα, γι′ αυτό ήθελε να γίνει υποτακτικός του..

https://t.co/SD1M9q2S1x

Ὁ Θεός διάλεξε τούς ἁπλοϊκούς πού ὁ κόσμος θεωρεῖ μωρούς γιά νά καταντροπιάσει τούς σοφούς. Καί ἐξέλεξε ὅσους ὁ κόσμος θεωρεῖ ἀνίσχυρους γιά νά ντροπιάσει τελικά ἐκείνους πού ἔχουν κοσμική δύναμη...

καί διάλεξε ὁ Θεός ἐκείνους πού ἔχουν ἄσημη καταγωγή καί τούς περιφρονημένους κι ἐκείνους πού τούς θεωροῦν τόσο τιποτένιους σάν νά μήν ὑπάρχουν κἄν, γιά νά καταργήσει ὅσους θαρροῦν πώς εἶναι κάτι..

Καί τοῦτο γιά νά μήν μπορεῖ νά καυχηθεῖ ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ κανείς ἀπολύτως. (Α΄ Κορινθίους α΄, 27)

[Gabriel J. Benton ☦️🇺🇸 @OrthodoxPole81]

"The road to the Cross is all about struggles, vilification, deprivation; men do not want to take this road; they are proud, they want to flourish, and be eulogized. Do you understand that flesh and blood are prideful?"
-- Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Harbor for Our Hope: On Acquiring Peace Amidst Suffering p.66

[Gregório. @HagiosGregorio]

"What good did I bring, that You should have mercy on me and justify me? What did You find in me except only sins? Nothing in me is Yours except the nature You created; the rest are my evils, which You have wiped away."

— St. Augustine (In Psalmum 58, Sermo 1:19)

[Gregório. @HagiosGregorio]

"Yet, with all these seemingly praiseworthy virtues, if he does not hold a right and Catholic faith in God, he will depart from this life condemned."

— St. Augustine, Against Two Letters of the Pelagians III, 14

[Father Spyridon Bailey @Fatherspyridon]

"Don't oppose daydreams, but throw a stone at them. The stone is the name of Christ, the Jesus Prayer. You don't have the power to drive them away, the name of Jesus drives them away." - St Barsanuphius of Optina

[Thought Eater☦️ @FROTHSOF]

"By means of detachment let us separate ourselves from the world; by humility let us be united to the Saints who have been from old. Let us 'put off the old man' by cutting off the earthly will and by the mortification of the mind of clay." St. Symeon the New Theologian

[Father Spyridon Bailey @Fatherspyridon]

"He who loves God first loved his neighbour, because the latter is undoubtedly proof of the former." - St Maximus the Confessor

[Church Fathers @fathers_church]

First, the mind must become detached
from anything subject to flux and change
and rest in tranquil spiritual repose,

so as to be rendered akin to Him
Who is perfectly unchangeable.

Then, it may address Him
by the most familiar name
and say, 'Father'.

St Gregory of Nyssa (+395)

[ᚾᛖᚳᛏᚪᚱᛁᚢᛋ - Nectarius @Nektarius_]

"In the Saracen encampment they asked St. Cyril: "How can Christians wage war and at the same time keep Christ's commandment to pray to God for their enemies?" To this, St. Cyril replied: "If two commandments were written in one law and given to men for fulfilling, which man will be a better follower of the law: the one who fulfilled one commandment or the one who fulfilled both?" The Saracens replied: "Undoubtedly, he who fulfills both commandments." St. Cyril continued: "Christ our God commands us to pray to God for those who persecute us and even to do good to them, but He also said to us: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). That is why we bear the insults that our enemies cast at us individually and why we pray to God for them. However, as a society, we defend one another and lay down our lives, that you would not enslave our brethren, would not enslave their souls with their bodies, and would not destroy them in both body and soul."

- Saint Nikolai Velimirovic, May 11th entry for the Prologue of Ochrid; Regarding the defense of ones nation and people as a Christian.

[NEPSIS @nepsisblog]

“HERESY, in ecclesiastical theological language, is when someone presents his own opinions and beliefs as the teaching of the Church, and his own interpretation of divine revelation as the interpretation and teaching of the Church.

Heresy creates in the Church an evil greater than sin. The sinner falls as an individual, and it is possible for him to recover again by making use of the saving means of the Church. The heretic, however, falls definitively away from the body of the Church, because he does not believe in the Church as the ark of divine revelation. He believes only in himself and assumes the role of judge over the “faith once delivered.”

Every heresy is an outbreak of the same sickness: human egotism.

For this reason, heresy constitutes blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Consequently, heresy tears apart the body of the Church. It destroys its unity. It mixes truth with error. It does not come from outside, and for this reason it is not easily perceived. It circulates as truth, clothed in ecclesiastical dress and appearance, and thus easily succeeds in deceiving people.

It is the most terrible weapon of Satan against the Church, more terrible even than persecutions. For it does not kill corruptible bodies, but immortal souls.”

—Fr. George Metallinos
Light from Light (excerpts)
(Original credit to the Pilgrims of the Holy Trinity channel on Telegram)

[Δημήτρης Ρόδης @jimmyrodis]

Oύτε από την πολλή μελέτη, ούτε απ’ τα πολλά ψαλσίματα ποτέ ο άνθρωπος έφθασε στην απάθεια. Η απάθεια έρχεται μόνον διά της νοεράς προσευχής. «Κύριε Ιησού Χριστέ Ελέησόν με..»

Αυτό εύχομαι να σας δώση ο Θεός, την αίσθησι της προσευχής αυτής. Και όταν την γνωρίσετε στην πράξι, τότε θα δήτε και θα εννοήσετε καλά – καλά τα πράγματα που σας λέω...

Τώρα πολύ – πολύ μπορεί να μή με εννοήτε, αλλά μετά που θα ’ρθή η χάρις του Θεού, τότε θα καταλάβετε και θα πήτε: Ά, καλά μας έλεγε ο Γέροντας...''

~ γέρ. Εφραίμ Φιλοθεΐτης
''Διδασκαλία περί της νοεράς προσευχής''
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[dh @pragmatikos_]

Q. Can one be saved apart from the Church of Christ?
A. No, it is impossible... all of God's saints belonged to the Orthodox Church, and outside of her, there was not and will not be even one who is truly pleasing to God.
— St. Nicholas Varzhansky, A Model of Sound Doctrine, 9